with other ways to reduce costs including abandoning retiree health care and passing a higher sales tax. >> we have made drastic reductions in our workforce which again reduces the liability we would have for the pensions going forward. we have also made drastic reductions in the actual pay that our employees receive. >> the detroit decision paves the way for at least one creditor and a coalition of lenders. >> we lost our medicals, we've taken a hit. it's not like let's say all the creditors taken a hit but the employees didn't, we did, we took a big hit. >> it's become a complicated matter one for alfred and those like him across the country who face a less secure and cozy future. melissa chan, al jazeera, stockton, california. >>> nearly five years ago, to save the struggling auto maker but that cost the american taxpayers. the taxpayers paid $50 billion to recoup gm but recovered only about 39 billion. that was less than it would have cost the country, says the government, to let gm go under. >>> the new violence for brazil and the safety fears for the game. >>> plus fizzled out, th